I decided over the last couple of days to make some more web layouts.

This is your typical corporate layout for an IT or perhaps a web services company. The second is a web hosting style design.

Office Space fans will get the Innitech Reference…

There’s a bit of a design trend recently around fat footers, and I like them too. I’ve kind of incorporated it here. They help with SEO and usability.

I was bored late at last night when I really should have been in bed, and decided to play about with my camera for an hour or so; ideal time to try out my new tripod!
Read up a bit about the concept of light painting and long exposures – of course I still need to go and photograph a busy road, but for now, here’s some shots closer to home. It’s so much fun!
I took loads, but I just chose a few…

So, at the moment, the website for Nottingham A/V service company, Aerial Force is not well optimised at all, and looks a bit dated. It doesn’t appear anywhere near the top of Google for relevant keywords.
Never fear, I’m re-designing it and I plan to make it a good contender for a similar, bigger company who also use ‘Aerial Force’. Bit of a business faux-pas if you ask me; to steal the name of a smaller company.

I came up with this initial layout, opting for a premium feel with dark grey and deep red. I’ll code this up and hopefully get much better conversion and more enquiries from the site.

In an attempt to make my own entertainment for lack of anyone else to help, I decided to go to Nottingham centre to have a proper play with my new camera.

I’m now understanding how F/numbers work and how aperture size needs to be compensated by shutter speed etc. I’m now getting it…but still trying to figure out how to take a long exposure in daylight with a camera which only goes down to F/22 without complete whiteout. n00b!

I went to the Nottingham Contemporary to see the ‘Star City’ exhibition. It was all a bit odd. Got some fairly interesting pics, but it was all a bit too post-modern. Had a walk around the Lace Market while I was at it.

It’s so odd walking around Nottingham and actually noticing stuff, as you do when looking for photo opportunities. Normally, the nuanced character of Notts city centre passes one by, until you stop to notice it.
I stopped caring about the potential for people to try to steal my camera…it’s not really a threat. If someone tried, they’d be the ones in danger, anyway. When one walks around a city purely to look for photos, one feels like they’re not participating in what everyone else is doing – you’re there in a different context!

I filled up my memory card with RAWs, so I look forward to going over them, and getting frustrated because I’m not brave enough to get the more risky shots.